Truesdale, the Andrew Jackson High School government and economics teacher who has qualified to run in the 2019 Boston Marathon, posted his second straight win in the Lancaster Rotary Club Race for Charity at Lancaster High School on Saturday morning as part of the Red Rose Festival.

Truesdale set a personal best in the 5K race with a course record 17:33 to top the 115-runner field.

In these times of deep division in our country, I would like to point out something that we Americans have in common.
One in five U.S. residents – across all social classes, races, religious beliefs, genders and ages – lives with some form of mental health condition in a given year. It is so common that it’s becoming an epidemic.
Despite this fact, there is still stigma associated with having a diagnosis of a mental health condition.

Editor’s note: Sen. Scott testified Thursday before the congressional Joint Economic Committee on the benefits that Opportunity Zones, passed in last year’s federal tax reform bill, will have on distressed communities across the country. In March, Gov. Henry McMaster selected nearly all of the city of Lancaster as two of the state’s 135 Opportunity Zones. The program makes those areas eligible for tax incentives to encourage business creation. Here are excerpts of Scott’s testimony:

In the second act of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the Aaron Burr character expresses his jealousy at being excluded from – and his desire to get into – the meetings that his rival Alexander Hamilton participates in where major decisions are made to plot the course of the new United States.
“I wanna be in the room where it happens,” Burr sings.

It would seem to be the perfect crime. A petty crime for sure, but a crime nonetheless. After all, the items I left out I expected to be gone at some point.
This past Saturday, the U.S. Postal Service and United Way held the Stamp Out Hunger food drive. In Lancaster, postal workers picked up nonperishable food items left by their customers to be donated to Project HOPE, our local food bank.
On Friday I dutifully went by the supermarket and purchased about $20 worth of nonperishable items to donate. Around 10 a.m. Saturday, I placed three bags of items at my mailbox.

The University of South Carolina Lancaster Lancers capped their 2018 baseball season, going 2-2 in the NJCAA Region X baseball tournament in Lexington.
USCL, which finished 22-23, opened play in the double-elimination field with wins over Spartanburg Methodist and USC Sumter before falling to Florence Darlington Tech and USC Sumter, the eventual Region X tournament champion.
USCS ended the Lancers’ postseason run with a 17-4 win over USCL on May 7.
Jackson Barrett and Nick Cicci each had a double and drove in two runs for the Lancers.

Lancaster Motor Speedway is off this week.
This mid-May break gives the drivers and fans a chance to take a vacation and spend time with their friends and family.
The break also gives the drivers a chance to work on their race cars for the second half of the 2018 racing season at LMS.
The next two months will be busy for Lancaster Motor Speedway.
On May 26 when the track swings back into action, the Robbie Helms Memorial race and the Memorial Day Weekend Mayhem will highlight racing action. Helms is a former driver who died last December.

Three Lancaster High School Bruins soccer standouts have been named to the All-Region III-AAAA team, including forward Seth Blackmon, defender Jacob Cato and keeper Ben Rivers.
Blackmon, for the LHS season, earned the team’s Offensive Most Valuable Player Award with nine goals on the season.
Cato, who received the Assist Leader Award, had a team-high nine assists on the season.
Rivers was the LHS senior keeper and had 108 saves with three shutouts on the season.